Farmerville, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 205% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Farmerville, LA shows violent crime at 1,073.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,423.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 205% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
1073.6/100K violent
2423.3/100K property
+205% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Farmerville, LA
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 622.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1073.6 in 2024 (+72.4%). The highest observed value was 1073.6 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Farmerville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Farmerville's 1073.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lafayette (1066.1), Bogalusa (1131.5), New Iberia (1009.3), Jennings (1007.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Farmerville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana cities
At 1073.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Farmerville ranks 16 of 66 — above 50 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +153.3% against the cohort median of 423.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 30.7% of the 114 Part I offenses reported in Farmerville for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 12.4 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Farmerville's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Farmerville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.8 Census sq mi, Farmerville logged 13.7 property and 6.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Farmerville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (55% of 114 offenses; mix index 4,049).
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-35.6%
3762.6 → 2423.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+17%
917.7 → 1073.6/100K
Property offenses lead Farmerville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
79
2423.3
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
63
1932.5
-
-
Burglary
10
306.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
184
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
35
1073.6
352
410
Aggravated Assault
34
1042.9
-
-
Rape
1
30.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Farmerville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Farmerville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Farmerville Police Department
Reporting agency for Farmerville NIBRS-participating
Farmerville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Farmerville's 114 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Louisiana
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In 2024, Farmerville reported 35 violent crimes and 79 property crimes, for a total of 114 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Farmerville?
From 2023 to 2024, Farmerville's violent crime rate increased by 17%, and the property crime rate decreased by 35.6%.
What is the most common crime in Farmerville?
The most common crime type in Farmerville is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.3% of all reported crimes (63 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Farmerville is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Farmerville, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.